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1959
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In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest...
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1957
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Not quite a full-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance...
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1955
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Robert Wagner stars as insensitive Southern landowner who gets a much-overdue dose of humility and democracy when he's...
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1956
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The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they...
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1957
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The "Carry On" gang take on law enforcement in this rude and crude slapstick comedy. When a flu epidemic leaves a British...
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1960
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This is the 20th feature in the successful "Carry On" series of bawdy slapstick comedies. Sidney Bliss (Sidney James) and his...
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1970
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The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce....
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1959
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The "Carry On" gang take on employment agencies in this labored edition to the long-running comedy series. Sidney James is...
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1961
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In this British crime drama a detective has a woman pretend to be her aunt so that he can prove that her uncle is a...
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1949
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A little white lie sets off a harrowing series of increasingly catastrophic events in this thriller. The trouble begins when...
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1958
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In this tragic melodrama, a lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her...
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1956
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The British "Confessions" film series was reminiscent of the "Carry On" series, albeit far, far dirtier. Many fans consider...
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1974
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In this drama, a disfigured chemist, whose face was badly scarred during a lab accident, becomes insanely jealous and...
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1938
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The world of provincial British theatre is given a gentle going over in Curtain Up. Short of funds, a small-town repertory...
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1952
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The "little lady" in this British melodrama is the amply proportioned Mai Zetterling. The actress plays prima ballerina Nina...
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1954
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A dead man offers an escape for prison fugitive, Jones, who discovers the look-alike body and exchanges identities only to...
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1953
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This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his...
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1955
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The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical...
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1953
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The Extra Day is a portmanteau film in the tradition of the earlier Derby Day. The ball gets rolling when Joe Blake...
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1956
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The main attraction of this teen romance is likely to be the soundtrack music of Elton John. A young English boy, suffering...
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1971
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A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family...
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1952
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Dickens' oft-filmed novel Great Expectations has been adapted several times for British television. This version was offered...
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1981
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1989
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Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative...
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1948
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1958
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Alex Nicol stars as writer Mark Kendrick, who becomes involved in an affair with his murderous neighbor Carol Forrest...
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1954
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Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of...
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1963
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In this farce, an enigmatic writer (Mai Zetterling) begins using the pen-name Dominic Danges, a popular writer believed dead....
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1951
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High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street....
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1951
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This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books...
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1961
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Jenny, a pretty, independent, factory worker takes a holiday in Blackpool with her friend Mary. She has a week-long affair...
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1952
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Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to...
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1962
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Two veterinarians contrast with each other in this standard British comedy by Darcy Conyers. Jimmy Fox-Upton...
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1961
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Horror-film icon Hazel Court guest stars as nightclub ventriloquist Penny Page, who is unaware that she is being used as a...
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1958
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Ribald music hall comedian Frankie Howerd stars in the British laughspinner Jumping for Joy. Set in the rarefied world of dog...
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1956
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William, the obstreperous Welsh schoolboy created by children's novelist Richmal Compton, appeared in several film...
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1947
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This family adventure movie, based on the novel by Marguerite Henry, is about a mute Arab boy and his constant companion, a...
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1990
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Though his Hollywood career had petered out, Tom Conway continued to star in British films throughout the 1950s. In Last Man...
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1956
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In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew...
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1937
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1937
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Mad About Men is the delightful sequel to the saucy British comedy-fantasy Miranda. Glynis Johns returns in the dual role of...
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1954
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows...
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1950
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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1936
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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1956
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Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by...
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1954
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This musical comedy stars Herman's Hermits, the popular British pop group that made the title song from the movie a...
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1968
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1962
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In this comedy, a newlywed couple head out for their honeymoon. Unfortunately, their mother-in-law follows close behind....
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1952
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This is one of the rare comedies by director Gerald Thomas that does not have the words "Carry On...." in the title, and that...
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1960
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Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. She...
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1957
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Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed...
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1945
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In this British comedy, a new nurse comes to replace her predecessor, the town pump, in an English country town. Soon, she...
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1964
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Please Turn Over is an updated British variation on a theme put forth by the old Hollywood film Theodora Goes Wild. A bored...
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1960
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In this crime drama, two WW II veterans become fugitives from the police after one of them kills a man during a fight. A...
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1955
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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1952
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1962
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In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people...
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1957
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At the beginning of The Secret of My Success, dimwitted Arthur Tate (James Booth) is a local village bobby who always follows...
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1965
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Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of...
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1950
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1953
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Love, marriage and show business provide the basis of this lively comedy that centers on a husband and wife, who are chosen...
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1955
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1980
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An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are...
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1955
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The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly...
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1973
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In this drama a power-mad psycho woman vents her frustration by being cruel and abusive to her family. Because she...
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1949
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In this complex thriller, a womanizing chemist is accused of murder after his mistress is found poisoned to death. No one...
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1955
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Based on the novel by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Trojan Brothers offers the unlikely screen team of music hall funster...
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1946
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John Gregson stars as Chayley Broadbent, a young Yorkshire businessman leading a dull, perfunctory life. He inherits a...
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1955
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What Every Woman Wants!, at least according to this British comedy-drama, is a roof over her head. Elsy Albin and Patric...
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1954
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The surprise British TV hit of 1965, The Likely Lads was a sitcom built around the misadventures of two Northerners, Terry...
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1973
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In this made-for-television mystery (adapted from a novel by Agatha Christie) a man dying on a beach utters the question "Why...
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1980
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1983
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In this romantic comedy, a widow listens to the advice of a widowed friend and stages a bogus burglary to win back the...
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1934
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Comparatively little known, the British A Woman for Joe is an excellent showcase for leading lady Diane Cilento (later better...
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1955
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John Schlesinger directs the war romance Yanks, based on the story by Colin Welland. Set in England at the end of WWII, the...
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1979
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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Aunt Florence
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1958
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The plight of an English couple struggling to raise a disabled child is given a darkly humorous treatment in this English...
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Grace
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1971
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: 4.50 From Paddington was first aired...
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Miss Marple
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1987
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel was first aired in...
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Miss Marple
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1986
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The first installment of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Body in the...
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Miss Marple
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1984
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The final installment of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd...
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Miss Marple
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1992
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Miss Marple
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1984
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger was first aired in...
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Miss Marple
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1984
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage was first...
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Miss Marple
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1986
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Joan Hickson stars as Miss Jane Marple in this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery...
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Miss Marple
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1987
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: Nemesis was first aired in 1987. This...
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Miss Marple
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1987
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye was first aired in...
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Miss Marple
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1985
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder was first aired in...
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Miss Marple
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1987
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors was first...
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Miss Marple
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1991
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The "Carry On" gang returns with Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) conning the local council into running a beauty pageant to...
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Mrs. Dukes
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1973
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Don't Take It to Heart is an amiable entry in the 1940s cycle of "ghost comedies". A British castle is rocked by a German...
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Mrs. Pike
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1944
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John Cleese's knack for mining hilarity from the growing frustration of a dignified gentleman is fully exploited in the...
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Mrs. Trellis
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1986
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Set near the end of 1899, as a new century is due to arrive and many people struggle to keep up with an era in flux, this...
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Mrs. Whitweather
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1993
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A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for...
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Rosemary
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1960
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